City life
‘The footage was so disturbing I vomited’: What it’s like being mum to Australia’s leading F1 driver
Nicole Piastri says she wishes her son Oscar had chosen golf or tennis. “But he loves it,” she says ahead of the Australian Grand Prix.
- Cara Waters
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- Education
Hi-yah! How school buildings became a community lifeline out of hours
Government schools are providing desperately needed sporting facilities for community groups in Melbourne’s growth suburbs.
- Caroline Schelle
Influencers axed from grand prix’s Glamour on the Grid before some given a reprieve
Grand prix boss Travis Auld is trying to reinvent the race’s opening party with fewer influencers and more “diversity”.
- Cara Waters
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- Property development
Developer quietly guts ‘affordable’ housing promise in northern suburbs
An “ethical” property developer favoured by the state government is seeking to slash affordable housing quotas after winning controversial height concessions.
- Rachael Dexter
No tips required: Driverless taxis could soon be on Australian roads
Being a passenger in a self-driving car is surreal, but if Uber’s planned deployment of robo-taxis goes to plan, it is going to become increasingly common.
- Cara Waters
Tennis club fights for survival in battle over space at ‘MCG of the East’
The 94-year-old Mitcham Tennis Club would be demolished as part of a master plan designed to accommodate netballers, footballers and gymnasts.
- Rachael Ward
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- The restaurant tycoons
It took me months to interview the man behind Melbourne’s laneway culture. Few people even know his name
For 40 years, Con Christopoulos has run dozens of the city’s most recognisable venues - yet few Melburnians have heard of him. In the third instalment of an Age series profiling the city’s restaurant tycoons, we look at how he built a dining empire.
- Clay Lucas
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- Architecture
The man who built modern Melbourne – from the MCG, to Marvel to our first skyscraper
Among the striking designs to come from Daryl Jackson’s busy drawing board was the wonderfully named Harold Holt Memorial Swimming centre - but it was 120 Collins Street that got a few noses out of joint.
- Tony Wright
Retirees lost this long-standing discount. They’re fighting to get it back
Mornington Peninsula retirees have banded together in an attempt to reinstate a 20 per cent discount after it was unexpectedly removed last year.
- Gemma Grant
Ron Barassi immortalised as road outside MCG renamed in his honour
The Australian rules football great, who died in 2023, is considered the sport’s most important post-war figure who helped shape the modern game.
- Angus Delaney